Oh shit. Earth and Venus to collide. How we are stocked on canned goods?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090610/sc_afp/scienceastronomyearthmercurymarsvenus

Earth-Venus smash-up possible in 3.5 billion years: study
by Marlowe Hood Marlowe Hood – 1 hr 45 mins ago
PARIS (AFP) – A force known as orbital chaos may cause our Solar System to go haywire, leading to possible collision between Earth and Venus or Mars, according to a study released Wednesday.

The good news is that the likelihood of such a smash-up is small, around one-in-2500.

And even if the planets did careen into one another, it would not happen before another 3.5 billion years.

Indeed, there is a 99 percent chance that the Sun's posse of planets will continue to circle in an orderly pattern throughout the expected life span of our life-giving star, another five billion years, the study found.

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[HopeHoops]

1. Well, most canned goods will expire before then - but the SPAM should still be fine!

[siligut]

3. That and Twinkies!

Funny part in WALL-E is when WALL-E feeds his pet cockroach a Twinkie in the year 2708.

[backtoblue]

7. don't forget condiments...

we'll be able to suck down ketchup packags for eons!!!

[charlie and algernon]

2. forget canned goods, I'm setting up a lawn chair on the side of impact

I wanna watch venus as it gets closer :woohoo:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. By that time we'll have found another planet to trash...

if we haven't annihilated ourselves.

[NJmaverick]

5. As someone involved in emergency preparedness

I will offer you my canned answer to any question.

PUT ALL YOUR MONEY IN CANNED GOODS AND SHOTGUNS!

:evilgrin:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Should I start a crisis garden and put all my money in gold bullion?

I hear global elites are secretly stockpiling all non-hybrid seeds in a secret bunker near the North Pole. The man on the radio told me so.

:tinfoilhat:

[NJmaverick]

8. "gold bullion", that isn't very good for making soup

:nuke:

[Symarip]

9. Good thing I come from Mars (nt)

[Blue_Tires]

10. that could be fun...

isn't Venus supposed to be populated entirely with the hottest women?

[Orrex]

11. Yes, but Mars Needs Women

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060672/

The collision could easily spark another interplanetary war!!!1!

[Blue_Tires]

12. we'll beat down that martian ass like they stole something!

[Bucky]

13. Well, thanks for fucking up my weekend, Carcetti

What's the point... now

[baldguy]

14. Unless you have a can of warp drive...

[montanto]

15. Oh well, its all up in 2012 anyway.